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		<title>My Favorite Interview Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been doing some job interviews (as an interviewer, not a candidate). Although I hate being schematic and try to come up with new &#38; interesting questions for every candidate, I always ask My Favorite Interview Question, which is: What are the benefits of using Dependency Injection pattern? The answer for that immediately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=799&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hash bars &#8211; simple ASCII-art charts in your console, database or Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you have some data like this: MONTH COUNT 2011-10 417 2011-09 903 2011-08 1051 2011-07 759 2011-06 835 2011-05 647 2011-04 393 it may be difficult to spot a trend in it. That&#8217;s why people use charts and other visualization tools and there&#8217;s a lot of them (you could use Excel, Google Charts, gnuplot, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=724&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Hash bars in Excel</media:title>
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		<title>The endless cycle of code vs docs</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/the-endless-cycle-of-code-vs-docs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hereby I present to you a very first chart comic on this blog. Nods and acknowledgements to The System Comic. I hope they don&#8217;t mind the stolen graphic. Any similarity to this particular comic is not quite unintentional. Tagged: chart, code, comic, cycle, docs, endless, the system comic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=714&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WeekProgress — complete iPhone application source code available</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While you weren&#8217;t watching I went and created a small iPhone app: WeekProgress. Don&#8217;t expect too much functionality (or sense!) there &#8211; it was born mainly for learning purposes. It features a main screen and 3 (three!) screens worth of settings. On the main screen you&#8217;ll find a progress bar that tracks your way through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=695&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t force them, teach them</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/dont-force-them-teach-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[anti-pattern]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with a large Java legacy codebase lately, I spotted a couple of anti-patterns. Following are three of most annoying and ubiquitous ones. Numberosus Constantitis A lot of classes define these constants at the beginning: which are then used like this: or like this: Why? Oh why?&#8211;you say&#8230; It&#8217;s because the IT Management appointed checkstyle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=670&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The future is now</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/the-future-is-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://szeryf.wordpress.com/?p=664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know what future is now? The one you mentioned one month ago, when you said &#8220;let&#8217;s copy and paste for now and fix it in the future.&#8221; And the one from &#8220;we&#8217;ll add unit test for that in the future.&#8221; And when will this &#8220;later&#8221; from &#8220;we&#8217;re going to refactor this later&#8221; happen? Later, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=664&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palace Driven Development</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/palace-driven-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poor man and a rich man wanted to roast a rabbit. The poor man lit a bonfire, put the rabbit on a stick and sat by the fire holding the stick. The rich man snorted at such a simplistic rabbit roasting: What if rain comes while I&#8217;m roasting? What if somebody attacks me and steals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=535&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Forest Spiral Building (Darmstadt, Germany)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Errante Guest House (Chile)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, USA)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ripley’s Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)</media:title>
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		<title>TDD Q&amp;A</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/tdd-q-and-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a very interesting comment from Rick Pingry and I&#8217;m taking a liberty to respond to him in the post format, because I think his questions deserve so. In general, Rick expresses his doubts about going TDD all the way and raises some really good questions about practical side of TDD. What&#8217;s interesting (to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=500&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I didn&#8217;t have enough time</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/i-didnt-have-enough-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I really didn&#8217;t have enough time for that&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; this is the most frequent excuse used by programmers for writing messy code, skipping refactoring, not writing unit tests etc. This is a poor excuse and there are at least two things wrong with it. The first one is the unstated assumption that writing clean, tested, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=458&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three brilliant ideas</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/three-brilliant-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short list of brilliant ideas that have fascinated me for some time now, but I doubt I will find any chance to use them in foreseeable future. These are not mine (sadly) but have been virtually haunting my mind since I learned them. What I like in them is a combination of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=391&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Escher&#039;s Rind</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Escher&#039;s Belvedere</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Escher&#039;s famous self-drawing hands</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Escher&#039;s Metamorph</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Escher&#039;s Waterfall</media:title>
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		<title>Reality check: is your project meaningful?</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/reality-check-is-your-project-meaningful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple reality check for you: do models (entities) in your project tend to have names like Item, Content, Object, Data or ContentItem? If so, your project may not be meaningful to your users. You&#8217;re probably going to (or already do) have problems in communicating with them. You see, the end users and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=358&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On salary negotiation during job interview</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/on-salary-negotiation-during-job-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szeryf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings after reading the article The answer to the toughest interview question on salary negotiation during job interview. Also, there is much valuable advice in the over 160 comments, but some of them only deepen the confusion. Penelope&#8217;s advice is to never give your desired salary, but make the interviewer state their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=334&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TDD makes you deliver faster</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/tdd-makes-you-deliver-faster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sick of hearing the same old song again and again: &#8220;we wanted to try TDD but it would make us go slower, and we wouldn&#8217;t make the business friendly deadlines so, you know, maybe next time&#8221;. This is bullshit. A myth. An urban legend. Not true. The truth is just the opposite: TDD makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=324&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cool GitHub feature: edit file in-place</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/cool-github-feature-edit-file-in-place/</link>
		<comments>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/cool-github-feature-edit-file-in-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szeryf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just noticed that GitHub introduced a cool feature: you can edit your files in place on GitHub page. Don&#8217;t know how long has this been available but I discovered it just today. When you navigate to a file you have write access to, you will notice an &#8220;edit&#8221; link right above it. Click it, edit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=320&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Java and Ruby: how language principles influence users&#8217; mindsets</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/java-and-ruby-how-language-principles-influence-users-mindsets/</link>
		<comments>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/java-and-ruby-how-language-principles-influence-users-mindsets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szeryf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing some Java development lately and Java&#8217;s verboseness sent me looking for a way to shorten some of the monstrous generic type declarations. I know there is no typedef or similar concept in Java, but hoped that maybe some Java or Design Patterns gurus invented some clever trick or pattern to do something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=306&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Rails Routes TextMate bundle</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/introducing-rails-routes-textmate-bundle/</link>
		<comments>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/introducing-rails-routes-textmate-bundle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szeryf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[named routes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always have a problem parsing Rails&#8216; named routes in my head. It usually takes me a lot of time and effort to decide which controller action or view file is responsible for given path. Of course, it&#8217;s easy to tell when you look at: edit_user_path(@user) that you probably should go to users_controller.rb and find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=293&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using assert&#8217;s message to boost your unit testing productivity</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/using-asserts-message-to-boost-your-unit-testing-productivity/</link>
		<comments>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/using-asserts-message-to-boost-your-unit-testing-productivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szeryf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[assert]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://szeryf.wordpress.com/?p=279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick tip for enhancing your test writing productivity: use assert&#8216;s last parameter, the message. Virtually all assert_... methods accept it. You may have noticed in the docs that the last parameter is always message = nil or message = "". Too bad the docs don&#8217;t give examples on how to use this message. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=279&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Custom Shoulda macros &#8212; a tutorial</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/custom-shoulda-macros-a-tutorial/</link>
		<comments>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/custom-shoulda-macros-a-tutorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szeryf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[custom macro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shoulda gem is great not only because it provides you with a&#160;very clean and natural way of organizing tests with context and should building blocks, but it also comes with quite a&#160;large set of predefined macros that mirror Rails&#8217; validations, relations etc. What&#8217;s even better &#8212; it&#8217;s very easy to create your own macros to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=272&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TextMate shortcuts you should be using</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/textmate-shortcuts-you-should-be-using/</link>
		<comments>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/textmate-shortcuts-you-should-be-using/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szeryf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my list of TextMate&#8216;s keyboard shortcuts that are very useful for Ruby and Rails developers, but are not used as widely as they should (according to my very scientific observation on a very representative sample, i.e. my colleagues). I skipped all the obvious ones (like &#8220;open file&#8221;, &#8220;save file&#8221;, &#8220;go to next window&#8221;, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=253&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cromwell version 0.4 is out!</title>
		<link>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/cromwell-version-0-4-is-out/</link>
		<comments>http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/cromwell-version-0-4-is-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szeryf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://szeryf.wordpress.com/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While you weren&#8217;t looking, Cromwell &#8212; Lord Protector of your scripts turned 0.4. The new features include: logger support, inspect and change Cromwell&#8217;s state, restore original traps after protection end, custom traps support. &#8230;and I have run out of To Do list items. So if you use Cromwell (the gem has been downloaded 165 times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szeryf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1233362&amp;post=248&amp;subd=szeryf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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